People
Principal Investigator
Hakki Erhan Sevil, PhD
Dr. Hakki Erhan Sevil is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Intelligent Systems & Robotics at University of West Florida. Dr. Sevil received his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Texas at Arlington, and his BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Izmir Institute of Technology. Previously, he worked as a researcher in Service Automation and Systems Analysis Laboratory at Universite Libre de Bruxelles in 2009, and in Automation & Intelligent Systems Division at the University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute between 2014 and 2018. Please check resume page for more information.
Current Members
Dale Perkins
PhD student in Intelligent Systems and Robotics (co-advisor: Matt Johnson, IHMC)
Dissertation: "Distributed Behavior Models for Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Teams in Dynamic Environments"
Joshua Lentz
PhD student in Intelligent Systems and Robotics (co-advisor: David Fries, IHMC)
Dissertation: "Image Stitching for Images with Repetitious and Featureless Content"
Don Yates
PhD student in Intelligent Systems and Robotics (co-advisor: Arash Mahyari, IHMC)
Dissertation: TBD
Nathan Rayon
MS student in Computer Science
Thesis: TBD
Stephane Lee
MS student in Engineering
Thesis: TBD
BS student in Mechanical Engineering
Project: "Autonomous Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance using Quadruped Robotic Platform in Unstructured and Dynamic Environments"
Former Members
PhD student in Intelligent Systems and Robotics (co-advisor: Robert Griffin, IHMC) (Graduated with PhD degree)
Dissertation: "Perceptive Locomotion on Bipedal Humanoid Robots for Traversing Unknown and Challenging Environments"
Sean Bridges
MS student in Engineering (Graduated with MS degree)
Thesis: "Development of a Brushless Cycloidal Robotic Actuator for Assistive Exoskeleton Research" [Link]
Raymond Stevens
MS student in Engineering (Graduated with MS degree)
Project: "Autonomous Drone Photogrammetry"
Terrance Williams
MS student in Engineering (Graduated with MS degree)
Thesis: "Leader-Follower-based Collaborative Navigation of a UGV-UAV Formation" [Link]
Hunter Ayers
MS student in Engineering (Graduated with MS degree)
Thesis: "Development of an Object Detection and Tracking Pipeline for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in a Simulated Environment" [Link]
Shane Smith
MS student in Engineering (Graduated with MS degree)
Thesis: "A Rapid Structure from Motion (SfM) Based 3-D Modeling Framework Using a Team of Autonomous Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS)" [Link]
Stefan Wheeless
MS student in Engineering (Graduated with MS degree)
Project: "How to Swarm: Parameter Analysis on Entropy-Based Distributed Behavior Model for UAVs"
Philip Bailey
MS student in Engineering (Graduated with MS degree)
Project: "Image Segmentation-Based Traversability Assessment for Navigation of Unmanned Vehicles"
Joshua Bohannon
MS student in Engineering (Graduated with MS degree)
Project: "Prototype Development for Small Object Retrieval in Domestic Environments"
Braylee Brown
MS student in Engineering (Graduated with MS degree)
Project: "Autonomous Navigation of Underwater Vehicle with Static and Dynamic Obstacles"
Rafael de Sa Lowande
MS student in Engineering (Graduated with MS degree)
Thesis: "Visual Question Answering (VQA) Analyses for Post-Disaster Damage Detection and Identification using Aerial Footage" [Link]
Nicholas Sebasco
MS student in Mathematics (Graduated with MS degree)
Thesis: "Traversable Region Identification from Post-Disaster Aerial Footage Using Graph Based Image Segmentation" [Link]
Andrew Clevenger
MS student in Computer Science (Graduated with MS degree)
Project: "Towards UAV-Based Post-Disaster Damage Detection and Localization: Hurricane Sally Case Study"
Gabriel Broom
BS student in Computer Science
Project: "Visual Question Answering for Post-Disaster Response using Multi-Agent UAVs"
Luke Fina
BS student in Mechanical Engineering
Project: "Entropy based Distributed Behavior Modeling for Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems"
Brendon Ortolano
BS student in Mechanical Engineering
Project: "Enhancing Unmanned Maneuver through Mission-based Traversability Assessment (MeTA) Tool"
Amanda Serger
BS student in Mechanical Engineering
Project: "Design of an Assistive Robotic Platform for Non‐Urgent and Non‐Emergent Healthcare Tasks"
Darius Bethel
MS student in Engineering
Project: "Path Planning using Enhanced Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) Approach for Unmanned Vehicles"
Normandy Tanguilan
MS student in Engineering
Project: "Design and Implementation of an Assistive Robotic Platform for Non-Urgent and Non-Emergent Healthcare Tasks"
Danielle Novinski
MS student in Data Science (co-advisor: Salih Kocak, UWF)
Project: "Genetic Programming for Asphalt Design"
Grady Wright
BS student in Mathematics
Project: "Optimization Techniques in Cyber Threat Model Analysis"
Tomas Escobar
BS student in Mechanical Engineering
Project: "Fault Tolerant Formation Flight for Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Flying in same Airspace"
Renan Barbosa
BS student in Mechanical Engineering
Project: "An Adaptive Hybrid Gripper Design for Industrial and Service Robotic Platforms"
Samantha Kammerer
BS student in Mechanical Engineering
Project: "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe ASLAN R.A.W.R (Research, Analysis, Workshop, and Refinement) Project"
Davi Oliveira De Camargo
MS student in Engineering
Project: "Air Data Sensor FDI using Wind Field Estimation from Multiple UAVs Flying in same Airspace"
